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Freedom Plus Responsibility: Why Unschooling Is Nothing Like ‘Lord of the Flies’

September 24, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… Unschooling is often cartoonishly characterized by critics as a ‘Lord of the Flies’ environment, where kids run around wildly and chaos ensues. Continue reading →

Real Women Don’t Want the Government to Get Them in the Boardroom

September 23, 2018 – Mary Theroux …… Women, as well as all shareholders and debt-holders of California firms, should be flooding California’s Governor Jerry Brown’s In-Box and Voicemail with calls to veto the recently-passed Senate Bill 826, mandating quotas for women on corporate boards. Continue reading →

Government Nutrition Policy: A Big, Fat Failure

September 22, 2018 – José Niño …… Obesity has skyrocketed since the government became involved in the food pyramid. Continue reading →

Workplace Raids: A Big Problem with Immigration Enforcement

September 21, 2018 – Ryan McMaken …… Workplace raids against employers of non-government-approved workers make a mockery of private property rights. Continue reading →

Lehman Brothers and the 2008 Financial Panic: Learning the Right Lessons

September 20, 2018 – Robert Murphy …… In the wake of Lehman’s collapse, a familiar refrain from government officials, academics, the news media, and even Hollywood served to cement the “lessons” that deregulation and greed were the main causes of the financial crisis, while bold political intervention spared Americans from another Great Depression (the last time policymakers allegedly stood back and did nothing). There’s just one problem with this narrative: Every single element of it is false. Continue reading →

Face it, Nordic Countries are Not Socialist

September 19, 2018 – Daniel Lacalle …… Not unlike the United States, Nordic countries have mixed interventionist economies that nonetheless rely heavily on property rights and the private sector. Continue reading →

Climate Policy and the Case for Humility

September 15, 2018 – Randy Simmons …… Human systems and the systems that create climate changes are nonlinear and dynamic and, therefore, quite unpredictable. Continue reading →

Libertarian Lessons: Immigration

September 10, 2018 – Scott McPherson …… Government restrictions on immigration are economically counterproductive. Continue reading →

Polarizing Ideology

September 7, 2018 – Randall Holcombe …… With polarization has come intolerance: people abandon their friends and family when they seem to have the wrong political views. Continue reading →

Families First, Taxpayers Last

September 5, 2018 – Laurence Vance …… “The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions.” …. Ludwig von Mises Continue reading →